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Oct 16th, 2009

Check for Excel session

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Hi Friends,

I need to write a piece of code to identify if an Excel session(the process which is listed in the Task Manager) is already running or not?. Can anyone guide me with this?

Any help will be much appreciated!

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Dinil

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Oct 16th, 2009

Re: Check for Excel session

I don't know but If you can mess with tasklist and subprocess module (for XP/VISTA). This is purely untested as I'm not sure if tasklist returns anything!

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Re: Check for Excel session

You can pipe top to a file on Linux and then read the file.

Apparently you can use WMI for MS WIndows but I have not used it http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_co...ning_processes

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Re: Check for Excel session

Hi got a nice piece of code from this site:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/303339/

I am now able to check if an Excel process is running or not. The code does not use WMI and works fine on Windows

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Thanks for the help!!!....

Thanks and Regards,
Dinil

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